About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2055
  • TitleStreet scene
  • SummaryWoman holding purse walking on stoop-lined street; litter on sidewalk and curb; automobiles, street tree, lamppost, and other buildings in background. Caption: "Street scene -- This was the littered condition of S. 2d St. near Bedford Ave. at 10 a.m. today."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: caption stamped: May 29, 1946; Eagle Staff photo. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLitter (Trash) ; Streets
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Williamsburg: Neighborhoods